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Make up your mind. First you suggest McMasters thought Trump mocking the leader of a country who has made threats was funny. You completely disregard his saying---we shouldn't laugh too much about NK's nuclear threats.

So now even though McMasters clearly states we shouldn't laugh too much you're saying no one is laughing.

Hitting them financially is the adult way. Playing little Donny in the sandbox is not. It's also beneath the office of president. Well it was before he stepped in. Now it's business as usual.

How's the "hitting them financially" working so far? Haven't we trying that for decades? What are we going to do if Kim decides to get around our sanctions by exporting his nuclear and ICBM technologies?

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

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Make up your mind. First you suggest McMasters thought Trump mocking the leader of a country who has made threats was funny. You completely disregard his saying---we shouldn't laugh too much about NK's nuclear threats.

So now even though McMasters clearly states we shouldn't laugh too much you're saying no one is laughing.

Hitting them financially is the adult way. Playing little Donny in the sandbox is not. It's also beneath the office of president. Well it was before he stepped in. Now it's business as usual.

Nobody is laughing at NK's threats. McMaster laughed that Trump called
fat boy a rocket man. What is wrong with you anyway????

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How's the "hitting them financially" working so far? Haven't we trying that for decades? What are we going to do if Kim decides to get around our sanctions by exporting his nuclear and ICBM technologies?

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Well as soon as you bring up the Hitler card one must assume you mean force is required to remove him.

It's a non-comparison. Geopolitics have changed just a bit over the last eighty years. Besides that, the U.S. has sat out intervening in the affairs of numerous "Hitlers" and their associated atrocities over the course of history. Look at Africa. Worse yet, the U.S. has contributed to others as well. Besides all that, cutting off the head of the snake doesn't always work because, well, geopolitics aren't the same as they were in the 1930s. Taking out Saddam didn't transform Iraq into a bustling capitalist democracy.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

Bannon's take after 8 months in the WH was correct. NK is going to have nuclear ICBM's and nothing we can do about it.

Agreed. Over a long enough timeline, the inevitable is inevitable. Time for a new tack.

One of the few things I found refreshing about Trump's take on foreign policy (albeit a rather naive one), was his stated willingness to sit down and talk; talk to these "rogue" players and do something meaningful. Unfortunately he flushed that all away with his stupid Twitter habit. Now the North Koreans can point to his threats and make a legitimate case for having a nuclear deterrent against the premier world superpower's fire and fury aggression.

This was President Dotard's only chance to do something to set himself apart from all his predecessors and he ****ed it up as usual.

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Trump has got China to do what no other President has been able to do and that is stop the China banks from dealing with NK. If China sticks to it then that will crush NK.

The reason it more than likely will work is because China knows that the US will us military force and that is the last thing China wants. Previous administrations took the military option off the table. With this administration NK and China know that the military option is on the table.

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Trump has got China to do what no other President has been able to do and that is stop the China banks from dealing with NK. If China sticks to it then that will crush NK.

The reason it more than likely will work is because China knows that the US will us military force and that is the last thing China wants. Previous administrations took the military option off the table. With this administration NK and China know that the military option is on the table.

You have a strange sense of how China views the U.S. and their relationship with North Korea. I'll just leave it at that.

I hope you're right that the latest round of sanctions isn't just a repeat of the same old thing being played out with the expectation of a different result. But I kinda think it is. Regardless, pinning North Korea down hard enough to make them negotiate away their nukes isn't going to happen at this point. They've come way to far just to capitulate to the U.S. demands.